The Effect of Rose Water (Rosa damascena mill) Supplementation in Broiler Rations on Growth Performance, Some Carcass Parameters and Intestinal Histomorphology

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of added to different levels of rose water broiler diets on growth performance, some carcass parameters and intestinal histomorphology. In the literature on the conducted research, there are very few studies about the use of rose water in animal as feed additive. A total of 216 day-old chicks were randomly divided into 3 groups each containing 72 chicks. While the control group was fed with basal ration, the experimental groups were fed with rose water supplementation at 2% and 4% dose, respectively, in addition to the basic ration. At the end of the experiment, the use of rose water in the rations did not statistically affected live weight (LW), live weight gain (LWG) and feed intake (FI), but feed conversion ratio (FCR) was adversely affected. In the study, hot carcass weight was positively affected while some internal organ weights were not affected by the addition rose water. On the 21 st and 35 th days of the experiment, when histolomorpfology of ileum and jejenum were examined, it was observed that villus height, crypt depth and villus height: crypt depth ratio were not affected by rose water addition. On the 21 st day of the study, ileum and jejenum and on the 35 th day of the study, ileum villus heights were positively affected by the addition of rose water numerically. In conclusion, hot carcass weight and intestinal health were positively affected by rose water. However, performance and some internal organ weights were not affected.